TEXTUS opens 8.4.17

TEXTUS explores ways in which text can be translated or made into visual artifact, visual art into literature, and how each medium speaks to record-keeping and storytelling.

In TEXTUS, poetry is brought into conversation with textile through the translation of written correspondence. By revisiting an archive of over four hundred letters sent between 2007 and 2016, Helena natives Alayna Rasile-Digrindakis and Lauren Roberta Korn allow one another to reinterpret their experiences by drafting a metaphorical palimpsest—one that layers poetic and visual explications of early adulthood.

These women have utilized their seemingly disparate art forms to confront ideas of nostalgia and sentimentality, of hindsight and maturity, and to revisit their friendship through visual art and poetics. Ultimately, however, TEXTUS serves to emphasize the act and the intention of written correspondence. Beyond the content of the source material, it is the habit and the care with which individual stories were (and are) shared that embodies the ever-evolving relationship between text and textile, between writing and weaving.

Standard Incomparable 06.04.2016 – 9.11.2016

This month two textile artists, Helen Mirra and Ellen Lesperance, installed their show Traversing at the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, CA. I am so fortunate to be part of a community of weavers from around the world who contributed pieces to Mirra’s project Standard Incomparable. The parameters were to weave two pieces out of local fiber with seven stripes as long as the weavers arm and as wide as the weavers hand. Standard Incomparable will have many iterations beginning with this show at the Armory Center. In September it will travel to Milan for a show at the Raffaella Cortese gallery and ultimately will be part of the collection at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA.

My pieces have a warp of american wool spun by the Huntington Yarn Mill in Philadelphia and a weft of alpaca from Doylestown hand spun on my drop spindle.

Posted on June 22nd, 2016

AIR 6 Final Show

The culmination of a nine-month residency – join me to celebrate!

Posted on September 19th, 2015

AIR cycle 6 is announced

One month into the residency and I’m totally overwhelmed by possibilities and directions. My seven partners-in-crime are mindblowing individuals- read more about them here.